sm-mta[386]: My unqualified host name ...

[Kiffin Gish]

That did the trick, thanks!

-- 
Kiffin Rex Gish
Gouda, The Netherlands

 



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stijn Hoop [mailto:stijn at win.tue.nl] 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 14:44
> To: Kiffin Gish
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: sm-mta[386]: My unqualified host name ...
> 
> 
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2005 at 02:25:17PM +0100, Kiffin Gish wrote:
> > I recently installed a fileserver which is restricted to 
> the internal 
> > network and which I refer to simply as 'fileserver' (pretty 
> creative, 
> > right).
> > 
> > However, sendmail doesn't seem to work correctly. When the machine 
> > boots and/or I try and send an email using sendmail, I get 
> a bunch of 
> > cryptic error messages. Here's a view of the syslog:
> > 
> > root at fileserver# tail /var/log/messages
> > Nov 29 13:51:56 fileserver sm-mta[386]: My unqualified host name
> > (fileserver) unknown; sleeping for retry
> > Nov 29 13:52:56 fileserver sm-mta[386]: unable to qualify my own 
> > domain name
> > (fileserver) -- using short name
> > Nov 29 13:52:57 fileserver sm-msp-queue[390]: My 
> unqualified host name
> > (fileserver) unknown; sleeping for retry
> > Nov 29 13:53:57 fileserver sm-msp-queue[390]: unable to 
> qualify my own
> > domain name (fileserver) -- using short name
> > ...
> > Nov 29 13:56:43 fileserver sendmail[565]: My unqualified host name
> > (fileserver) unknown; sleeping for retry
> > Nov 29 13:57:43 fileserver sendmail[565]: unable to qualify 
> my own domain
> > name (fileserver) -- using short name
> > ...
> > 
> > Can anyone please help me?
> 
> It's missing it's domain name apparently (i.e. the things 
> after the first . in fileserver.my.domain.nl). Either make 
> sure it's in the DNS or list it in /etc/hosts.
> 
> --Stijn
> 
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